Long live the exchange of weapons between two figures of feminism. The philosopher Élisabeth Badinter crossed swords this Wednesday morning through channels with the deputy Sandrine Rousseau. The left has been facing a series of cases of violence against women for ten days, from a recognized slap in the face by Adrien Quatennens to his wife to accusations of psychological violence against Julien Bayou and his ex-partner, which he formally denies.
And for Elisabeth Badinter, the person responsible for this wave of revelations is all found.
“At the head of the radicalization we have an environmentalist deputy who is Madame Rousseau and who wants to burn everything,” he told France Inter on Wednesday.
“I was especially struck by his intervention where he allowed himself to evoke a problem between Mr. Bayou and his companion, to ask for his exclusion,” the writer advanced in reference to the interview with Sandrine Rousseau on the set of C à vous where the deputy had reported a conversation with the ex-girlfriend of Julien Bayou, giving new publicity to these accusations already cited by the deputy EELV.
“She is a woman in all power”
Elisabeth Badinter thus believes that the deputy for Paris is taking advantage of these cases to serve her ambition.
“Where are we going to despise justice so much? (…) I think she is a woman who is in all power and who allows herself to contradict justice.”
An exit to which the interested party did not stop reacting. Sandrine Rousseau responded to her like this on her Twitter account, assuming that she wanted to “set the patriarchy on fire, ma’am, and with enthusiasm too.”
The Parisian deputy confided to France 5 on September 19 that he had received Julien Bayou’s former campaign accusing the elected official of psychological violence. The former candidate for the environmentalist primaries spoke of “behavior likely to undermine the moral health of women.”
Since then, Julien Bayou has withdrawn from the co-chairmanship of the EELV group in the National Assembly and has resigned from his position as number one in the party. “He never exercised the least psychological violence against his companions,” his lawyer Marie Dosé assured on Monday.
“A combo of reactionary positions”
The alleged facts are not clearly known, no complaint has been filed and no judicial investigation has been opened.
The ecofeminist, for her part, casts an equally stern look at Elisabeth Badinter who poses as “one of the many daughters of Simone de Beauvoir” and laments several of the comments the philosopher has made about France inter.
“Elisabeth Badinter is a combo of reactionary positions this morning,” lamented Sandrine Rousseau on her Twitter account, denouncing in particular her statements about the prescription of rape.
The philosopher has spent years denouncing the “victim position” of contemporary French feminists. Asked about the possibility of extending the statute of limitations in case of rape, currently 10 or 20 years depending on the date of the crime demanded in particular by the alleged victims of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, Elisabeth Badinter said no.
“I tell you that if we ended the prescription, it would simply mean that we assimilate gender violence to the law against the Nazis, (…) to a crime against humanity,” the septuagenarian responded to France Inter this morning. .
The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti pleads for his part to interrupt the limitation period if new similar acts are committed by the same author.
Source: BFM TV
